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Boy Lüthje is a senior research fellow at the “Institut für Sozialforschung” in Frankfurt since 1999. 1985 Diploma in Sociology at Frankfurt Goethe University, PhD in 1991 at Frankfurt Goethe University. 1990 – 1996 research fellow at the faculty of social sciences/humanities in Frankfurt with a focus on technology development and –policy within telecommunication. Several research projects at the “Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Technikforschung”. 1996 – 1999 post-doctoral research grant (DFG-Habilitationsstipendium). 1996/97 guest researcher at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley. Habilitation (full-professor credentials in Germany) in the year 2000, venia legendi in Sociology. Interim Professor (C4) “Politisches System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Innovation, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel in 2001. Interim Professor „Industriesoziologie FB Gesellschaftswissenschaften“ at Frankfurt University in 2003/04. Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, since 2002 (various one-year and shorter-term appointments). Visiting Professor School of Labor Relations and Human Resources Renmin University of China, Beijing 2008-09. Visiting Professor School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, since 2011.

Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.